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He finally looked up.
“The money you invested,” he said, his voice breaking. “They moved it. Called it marital restructuring. I didn’t even know until it was gone.”
“I lost the house,” he said. “The business. My reputation. I can’t fight them. If I do, they’ll take the boys for good.”
I watched my son crumple inward, and something inside me turned cold and sharp.
I reached across the table and gripped his wrist.
“Maybe you can’t fight them alone,” I said evenly. “But you’re not alone.”
That night, the boys slept in real beds for the first time in weeks. Clean sheets. Locked doors. Heat that didn’t come from gasoline.
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